Opinion: The comedic act at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was out of line

by Boris Epshteyn, Chief Political Analyst

(Sinclair Broadcast Group)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Boris Epshteyn formerly served as a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign and served in the White House as Special Assistant to The President and Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations.

In my opinion, Wolf was unnecessarily mean, cruel and disrespectful to Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway and to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. For example, she wished a tree would fall on Kellyanne and seemingly made fun of Sarah’s looks. It was uncomfortable and out of line.

Kellyanne and Sarah deserve a ton of credit for sitting through the insults and handling them with total class.

Here is the bottom line: Michelle Wolf’s comedy may have gotten laughs at a comedy club in New York but it was way off base for a bipartisan event in Washington, D.C. meant to celebrate journalism and journalists.

If traditions like the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and other non-partisan celebrations are going to continue, they have to bring people together and not mercilessly ridicule and offend representatives of any side of the political spectrum.